Key health messages

1. Wash hands regularly with soap and water.
2. Use tissues to cover your mouth and nose when you cough or sneeze.
3. Put used tissues in a bin as soon as possible.
4. Swine flu is an illness of the lungs.
5. It is caused by a virus.
6. A virus is a sort of germ that can only be seen under a powerful microscope.
7. It is spread by droplets that come out of your mouth and nose when you sneeze.
8. Cover your mouse and nose when you sneeze with the tissue- If you dont, other people might breathe the droplets and catch the flu.
9. If you cough and sneeze into your hand, its easy to spread from your hand onto things you touch, so hand washing is really important.

10. The virus can live for quite a long time on things like door handles, computers, keyboards and the TV remote control.

Swine flu introduction

 Introduction:   

     Swine flu has been a great concern worldwide because of its rapid transmissibility and pandemic nature. Swine flu is caused by  "Influenza A virus".

How it spreads?

     It spreads through air when a infected or carrier person sneezes,coughs, or speaks. People can also catch the virus after touching an object that someone with the virus sneezed or coughed on.

use of masks

Who especially is at risk?

     Kids with chronic medical conditions(like diabetes, heart disease, or asthma or other lung problems), pregnant women who catch the flu are more likely to get sicker and increase the chances of complications during pregnancy, labor and delivery.

     In infants this can be life threatening.

Signs and Symptoms:

     Fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills, fatigue and sometimes diarrhoea and vomiting. It also recruits secondary respiratory bacterial infections and pneumonia which makes it harder to breathe.

 

Treatment:

     Currently, no medicine is specifically developed to prevent or treat this new starin of swine flu, but it does appear that some of the antiviral medicines used to treat common seasonal flu may ease symptoms and shorten the duration of illness.